Sunday’s bombshell article by Jeff Stein–and the New York Times‘ helpful follow up piece–open up so many new lines of inquiry it’s hard to know where to begin. But a few things definitely stuck out at us. One question we had is why, according to Stein’s story, did the NSA (and not the FBI) conduct the wiretaps? (Yesterday afternoon a couple reports emerged indicating that perhaps the FBI, and not the NSA had done the surveillance, but the Times story seems to confirm what Stein wrote).
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=143598